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• Windows Live Photo Gallery

  Posted on June 24, 2024 at 02:43 CDT by Mary Branscombe

  SOFTWARE

  

  By Mary Branscombe

  It’s tempting to remember older software as being better and more reliable than newer tools, with their constant redesigns and updates. Do the Live Essentials tools still hold up?

  Microsoft keeps resetting its photo-editing tools. Every new version seems to drop useful features and become less reliable.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.26.0, 2024-06-24).

  Software Facial recognition, Newsletters, OneDrive, Photos App, Photos Legacy, Windows Live Essentials, Windows Live Photo Gallery

• Freeware Spotlight — Fawkes

  Posted on August 30, 2020 at 21:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  BEST UTILITIES

  By Deanna McElveen

  Here’s a little experiment that’s both interesting and terrifying.

  Google “facebook facial recognition” or simply “facial recognition.” Those of us who’ve been around a while have been warned about transgressions of this particular technology in … oh … a dozen or more movies!

  But we can fight back in our own small way, and it won’t cost us a dime — or a bitcoin!

  The University of Chicago’s Security, Algorithms, Networks and Data (SAND) lab has created an amazing anti-facial-recognition program appropriately called Fawkes (as in Guy Fawkes). The app is designed to modify common images in order to defeat unauthorized facial-recognition (FR) activities.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.34.0 (2020-08-31).

  Best Utilities AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Facial recognition, Fawkes

• Windows Security: On beyond passwords

  Posted on April 22, 2019 at 05:00 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Lance Whitney returns with an explanation of Windows Hello ways to log in to Windows without a password. PINs, pics, swipes and winks, oh my! They’re not only faster and easier than using a password, they’re more secure too.

  Details in this week’s AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.15.0, out this morning to AskWoody Plus Members.

   

  Tech Help AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Facial recognition, Fingerprint, logon, Picture, PIN